i have sorted everything out with my computer, thanks for all the help and support, this site is great and i really appreciate it. Just one last thing, my current (old computer) does not play any sound?? It says there is no audio device attached to the computer but ive plugged the speaker into the green port on the motherboard and nothing. I used to have a seperate sound card but took that out cus it stopped working. What seems to be the problem?

thanks

James

Check you have the drivers installed correctly for the onboard sound, usually its AC97, and make sure that its enabled as the sound card you had before could've disabled it. (You can do all this through device manager)